God in Hell, Devil in Heaven, Saints in Purgatory

Man differs from an animal only by a little. "Most men," said Confucius, "throw that little away." Sadly, dominated by silly religiosity, most men throw away their common sense for human decency. They would rather make a mockery of what human life should be down here; especially for the greater glory of a divinity up there. Like frightened faithfools on this earth, they would rather believe in the existence of a silly divinity in hell, and in the existence of a stupid deviltry in heaven, and in the existence of moronic saints in Purgatory! Poch Suzara

My Pleasures in Life

My pleasures in life are reading and re-reading; also writing and re-writing. Indeed, I have had greater pleasures in life experiencing intellectual orgasms with books than I have experiencing sexual orgasms with women. Poch Suzara

The Pope and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

The Pope may act outside the law, above the law, and against the law. - St. Robert bellarmine (1542-1621) Italian Cardinal If I may add, in the Philippines, such a pope, with a clear conscience, is more known as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. - Poch Suzara

Believing is Easy. Thinking is Hard.

Thinking is hard and believing is easy. It follows why there are far more stupid believers in this world than there are intelligent thinkers. For my part, each time I find myself unable to think; or, as the case may be, unable to believe, I do the next best thing: I suspend my judgment while I gather the evidences. In the meantime, I'd rather be wrong as an intelligent thinker than be right as a stupid believer. After all, anything mandated can, sooner or later, be amended. A stupid believe is right when it believes that the sun rises for the morning and sets for the evening. An intelligent thinker, however, has discovered that it is but a grand illusion. The sun does not move. It is the earth that rotates on its own axis and orbits round the sun giving the impression that it rises as it sets. Poch Suzara

So Jesus was a Genius - So What?

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all. - Dr. Jose Rizal I asked it before, I ask it again: If Jesus were such a Genius how come in all of Asia only the Filipinos love, worship, and adore Jesus? The Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Japanese, Malaysians, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Thais, Burmese, Cambodians, Mongolians have never heard nor do they care to hear about Jesus? - Poch Suzara

Jesus Hanged on a Tree - which Tree?

"The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” Acts 5:30-32 I asked it before, I ask it again: Jesus was HANGED to die on which tree - the TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL - (Gen. 2:9); or, on the TREE OF LIFE? - (Gen:3:22). In the meantime, in the Philippine Star today it says: "the cross of Jesus is the supreme evidence of the love of God." What love of God? what cross of Jesus? Jesus was hanged on a tree? Poch Suzara

What We Atheists Believe

Atheists believe that a hospital should be built instead of a church. Atheists believe that deed must be done instead of prayer said. Atheists strive for involvement in life and not escape into death. We want disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair If I may add, as an openly-avowed and publicly-declared atheist myself - we atheists would also like to bring more light into our world of darkness - by way of living the good life - one inspired by human love and guided by human knowledge of and for this world. Our world! - Poch Suzara

Whatever Happened to Love for Humanity

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help -- we need not waste our energies in his defense. - Robert Green Ingersoll If I may add, why were churches and cathedrals established in the Philippines for the care and maintenance of God who already owned everything; and not established for the care and maintenance of Filipinos who owned nothing? Poch Suzara

Christ Died for Our sins to Start an Indusry

Christ died for our sins; but on the 3rd day he happily resurrected to see to it that we also happily commit more sins to honor as well as to celebrate his martyrdom. It was the only way to keep his mission not as a church, but as a commercial enterprise - an industry. Today, in the name of Jesus - the Catholic Vatican bank is richer, bigger, taller, and far more powerful than the United States Federal Reserve Bank! Poch Suzara

God as a Cry-Baby God

My dear sir: Thank you for admitting that God is really nothing but a supernatural jerk, a cry-baby, a divine coward, a useless and a powerless Being, a reckless creator who, compared to the existence of the devil, God has always been and still is nothing but all-knowing FAILURE AND AN ALL-MIGHTY LOSER! I said it before, I say it again: such a God is not worth believing, not worth loving, not worth venerating, not worth praying to, and not worth respecting! And I thank THE THEOLOGY OF DIVINE INSANITY that I am an ATHEIST! Poch Suzara

God As a Linguistic Contortionist

"God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"Num. 23:19 Oh Yes God, my dear God, why don't you stop all this drama of yours and prove to us that you are, in fact, a good and a useful God? And not that you are just more of a linguistic contortionist than you are suppose to be a divine perfectionist? Poch Suzara

The Sick Teachings of Christianity

The sick teachings of Jesus to a large sick crowd centuries ago in Jerusalem are exactly the same sick teachings of Bro. Mike Velarde of El Shaddai or the sick teachings of Bro. Eli Soriano of Dating Daan or the sick teachings of Bro. Eddie Villanueva of Jesus is Lord Movement in this century in the Philippines to a large sick crowd comprised mostly of mindless men, heartless women, and thoughtless children - the SICK MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN OF ASIA. Poch Suzara

Our Sick and corrupt Society

In creation, we can see God's hand; in redemption, we can see His heart. Philippine Star, May 17, 2012 Well, what about in this poor and backward country - the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia - what does God see? Specially to remedy, finally, the ills of our sick and corrupt society endlessly blessed by Christianity? Poch Suzara

Letter to the Editor on Prayers to Jesus

May 17, 2012 Philippine Daily Inquirer Letter to the Editors Dear Editors: The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines declares: The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable. (Article II, Section 6), and, No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed. No religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights. (Article III, Section 5). May I remind our legislators both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives that your prayers to the Lord Jesus Christ before the daily impeachment trial of the chief Justice Renato C. Corona begins is a flagrant violation of the State and Church separation provision as per called for in our Constitution! As a Senior Citizen of our Republic, I ask: in the long history of Filipino affairs ever since we got to be the only Christian country in Asia, have any of our daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly prayers to Jesus Christ helped decrease our poverty as a people; or, helped increase our maturity as a nation? Sincerely, Poch Suzara Makati city 0916-572-4788

Our Sick Society with Sick Values and Sick Beliefs

Modern business in America is a postgraduate course in crookedness, dishonesty, lies, and deceptions, and it has destroyed the moral content of America as a nation. In the Philippines, however, college education is just like the nature of modern business in America. It means the license to be greedy, selfish, stupid, and insane. Otherwise, it is what "success in life" is all about. Or, for the glory of God in hell; or, for the sake of the devil in heaven - how to be corrupt in order to maintain and support our sick society with sick values and sick beliefs. Poch Suzara

Reality as Insanity in the Philippines

We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by education. Indeed, our collective will is due to, if not because of the result of - our stupid system of education. Look how in this already 21st century, our schools, colleges,and universities still teach that in order to save our souls for heaven we must only love God up there via hate of our country and hate of one another down here. Bertrand Russell summarized it neatly for all of us: "Religion encourages stupidity and an insufficient sense of reality." And to think that in the Philippines even daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reality is mostly based upon historical Catholic insanity. Poch Suzara

The Philippines is a Theocracy, Not a Democracy

The Philippines is NOT a Democracy. It is a Theocracy. It has been and still is since the 16th century - a Church for the Catholics, by the Catholics, and for the Catholics. There is no monument that stands for Filipino dignity and social sanity with great national pride anywhere in the Philippines except the MANILA CATHEDRAL- the monument to priestly historical stupidity. Poch Suzara

Like you, I too was born as an Atheist

Every one of us, when we are born, fresh out of the uterus, is an atheist. All babies are born atheist: free from religion. No baby is born as a Catholic, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Baptist, or a Hindu. We are all born free and then indoctrinated. When we attain the age of intellectual discretion - we repudiate that indoctrination. That is how we become in the truest sense of the term- BORN-AGAINST ATHEIST. We are back to the purity of our beginning before any of this dreadful theistic philosophy was put into our receptive, but undiscriminating, little minds. Conscience is no inner voice from God. Conscience is merely the combined product of evolution and education. If one were to follow one’s conscience rather than reason, what follows is not only confusion, but also delusion. Atheism Atheism is the world of reason, reality, and freedom. Atheism is human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree that the religious mind cannot begin to understand. And yet it is much more. Atheism is not an old religion, it is not a new and coming religion, in fact it is not, and never has been, a religion at all. The definition of Atheism is magnificent in its simplicity: Atheism is merely the bed-rock of sanity in a world gone mad. Atheism rises above divinity and puts humanity upon every one else. There are no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy. There are no bended knees in Atheism; No supplications, no prayers; no doctrines; No sacrificial redemptions, no eternal promises; No 'divine' revelations, no sacred writings; No washing in the blood of the lamb; No crusades, no massacres, no holy wars; No inquisition; no dogma, hogma, or pigma. No heaven, no hell, no purgatory, no limbo; No silly rewards, no vindictive punishments; No Christ, and no saviors; no I am who am; No burning bush, no talking donkey; No devils, no ghosts and no gods; No fear of silly divinity, only the courage to work for the good of humanity and to struggle only for the spread of human decency. Globally. YES, I AM AN ATHEIST AND PROUD TO BE ONE. I WAS BORN AN ATHEIST AND I SHALL DIE AN ATHEIST. There are no other options. No other choices. It is impossible to believe in God while coming out of mother’s womb. It is equally impossible to believe in God when one is already dead, buried, and gone out of this world. Poch Suzara

No Read, No Write Jesus

Jesus was a NO READ AND NO WRITE savior. So was His Father. Who was also a NO READ AND NO WRITE creator - look how GOD could only inspire authors to write but could NOT write the bible Himself. Look at Mary, the Mother of Jesus, she too was a NO READ NO WRITE mother. So was Mary's spouse Joseph, a NO READ AND NO WRITE carpenter in his Jewish community. JESUS was a product of an ILLITERATE family. After all, Jesus himself believed that "IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF, AND THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH SORROW." Ecc. 1:18. Moreover, why bother to learn how to read critically and how to write argumentatively when God, Mary, and Joseph and indeed Jesus preached: "THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN CRAFTINESS." 1 Cor. 3:10 As for me, I was expelled out of La SALLE high school precisely because I never ceased to question the teachings that we must only READ and WRITE as the stupid followers of FAITH, but never, must we ever read or write as the INTELLIGENT MASTERS of REASON! Thus, the index librorum expurgatorius - a list of forbidden books deemed morally and politically harmful by the authority of the Catholic church Jose Rizal was arrested, incarcerated, and publicly executed for exposing himself as a Filipino of intelligent reason who loved the world and loved humanity. He was one great avid reader of banned books and a great writer of great books himself. And yet, in our only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, who gives a hoot about the real Jose Rizal - a Filipino of the highest intellect. Indeed, a rare Filipino addicted to the fields of thought - surely a scholar and a gentleman who, at the expense of his own precious life, he tried hard to spread sanity and beauty into our country where the Catholic church with Jesus, Mary and Joseph have only put the horrors of religious insanity that makes for our sick society! Poch Suzara

Ordinary Minds, Average Minds, and Great Minds

Confucius said it: ORDINARY MINDS TALK ABOUT PEOPLE. AVERAGE MINDS TALK ABOUT EVENTS. GREAT MINDS TALK ABOUT IDEAS. Sad to see those who often brag that they have acquired college education; or, that they have even studied the philosophy of the Doctors of the church in a Catholic university. And yet, PEOPLE and EVENTS are about the most such ordinary and average minds talk about. Indeed, they are all ready and willing to impart thoughtless mediocrity instead of expressing thoughtful philosophy. Specially for those watching on TV or listening on Radio eager to learn lessons about living the good life - one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. In our print media and in the radio and television industry - instead of great minds, we only have Jesus freaking, jerks and saps. We even have a famous Teditorial on TV. Teddy Locsin Jr. He puts under deadly analysis the insane daily and nightly news with the conclusion that we need never think about it. We are only expected, as the Sick Man of Asia, to laugh with him at the sick mess of our sick society. Poch Suzara